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LOS ANGELES — The energy was electric Monday night (February 1) at Henson Studios as more than 80 of music’s biggest stars gathered for a charity remake of “We Are the World” in support of Haitian earthquake relief.

“I feel like a kid in a candy store,” Wyclef Jean said, speaking to the press about the idea of remaking such an iconic song, which is getting production help from RedOne and Will.I.Am. “What’s bigger than a contribution is that you lend your voice,” the Haitian native said earlier in the day to his peers while trying to inspire them during the session, which began around 3 p.m. and was expected to last well into the night.

Kanye, wearing a red jacket with sparkling gold crisscross accents, stood center in the front row, between Wyclef and Hudson.

Among the soloists whose sessions were screened for journalists at press time were Bieber, Dion and Groban. Weezy also came out and humbly noted that he recorded the solo originally sung by Bob Dylan.

The inspirational lyrics were laid down over a track that had a more modern Southern hip-hop bounce to it. The recording session took place almost 25 years to the day since the original song for African famine relief was recorded.

“The experience was out of this world,” said Bieber, who sang Lionel Richie’s original opening line. The video for the song, which is being shot in 3-D, will debut February 12. (TDHS: “We Are the World — 25 for Haiti” will premiere this month during coverage of the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics on NBC, according to a release from promoter AEG Live.)

SKIP TO 6 MINUTES TO SEE ANN AND NANCY ARRIVE!

Still from TMZ.com: Ann on the left in the back

Ann Wilson on the left

Ann & Nancy (thanx to Timstar78 for these pictures from Wire)

Ann & Nancy

Ann & Nancy

Ann & Nancy recording

The artists on ´We are the world`

USATODAY: Despite a total cast turnover, Nancy Wilson of Heart saw a strong parallel to the 1985 lineup. ”I just remember thinking, ‘What an odd collection of unlikely people that somehow managed to be cool together anyway,’ ” she said. “That’s how it felt tonight.” USATODAY: “Quincy Jones was just beaming like the sun,” Heart’s Nancy Wilson said, “and the room got hotter.”

Nancy

Arizona Daily Star, January 28th 2010

Nancy Wilson is understandably excited these days.

She and big sister Ann Wilson are catching a gusty second wind with their band, Heart. They are finishing a new album – their first studio effort in six years – and their fan base is getting larger and younger.

“There’s so much excitement right now,” Nancy, 55, said during a phone call from home in Los Angeles last week. “We’re about to do a cover shoot for the new album. The new album is getting really close. . . . It’s appearing in front of our eyes.”

Set to be released in July, the album follows 2004′s “Jupiter’s Darling.” It’s the fruit of years of touring with this lineup of musicians, which Nancy Wilson calls strong and exciting.

Wilson won’t disclose the album’s name – there’s a fan club contest centered on it - and she can’t really define it beyond saying it’s not a rehash of their signature 1970s and ’80s driving rock and monster ballads.

“It’s not just big rock, big metal or electronic sound. It’s really human,” she says. “But it also rocks harder because of that, because it’s more personal. There’s a lot of electric and a lot of acoustic and big drums and small moments. We’re kind of a variety show in that way. But it’s real cohesive.

“So see it’s hard to describe: ‘It’s really cohesive, but it’s really dynamic, but it’s really hard, but it’s really soft.’ I guess you have to hear it.”

Unfortunately, the band isn’t ready to play the new material live, so Tucson won’t hear any of it on Sunday, when Heart will play at the Desert Diamond Casino to make up for a canceled October date. The band had to bail out when most of its members came down with the flu.

“That was the H1N1 – the biggie,” she says. “We’ve played a lot of times when we were really sick, but that was a little bigger than we could handle.”

The new album is the latest chapter in the four-decade story of the trailblazing rockers. The sisters helped pave the way for other female rockers with a string of hits such as “Magic Man,” “What About Love,” “These Dreams,” “Straight On,” “Barracuda” and “The Woman in Me.”

In their 1970s and ’80s heyday, they sold out arenas worldwide on the strength of critically acclaimed albums, starting with their 1976 debut, “Dreamboat Annie.”

In the mid-1990s, the sisters took a break to raise families – both have two children – and to pursue other projects.

Ann, 59, released a solo album, “Hope & Glory,” in 2007.

Nancy worked on the soundtracks for several movies of her husband, Cameron Crowe, including “Almost Famous,” “Jerry Maguire” and “Vanilla Sky.”

The two returned to touring in 2002, reuniting with longtime fans and introducing themselves to new audiences.

“In the last three or four years, more and more very young kids are showing up, and they are just muscling their way to the front row. It’s been fantastic,” Nancy Wilson says, adding that the band’s resurgence is courtesy of the video game “Guitar Hero,” TV’s “American Idol” and the country’s fascination with the 1980s. “The kids know the music. They know our songs.”

Even Wilson’s twin sons, who turned 10 last Saturday, are fans. On the road with mom, “they just get their feathers fluffed up. ‘Oh, mom. You rock, mom!’

“It’s just so great to be ‘cool,’ at least for a while – until the morning of their 13th birthday,” she jokes.

Ask her what is left to do in a career studded with so many milestones and merit, and Wilson becomes even more philosophical.

“Everything’s left to do,” she says, sounding every bit a rocker on the rise.

From WMMR.com: Ann and Nancy Wilson will be back devoting their attention to Heart for the next six months, having announced a bunch of new tour dates for the first half of the year. Heart kicks off it’s 2010 gigs on January 29th and 30th at the Las Vegas Hilton, and so far, will wrap up their dates on May 29th in Indio, California.

The Wilson sisters spread their wings in 2009, collaborating on the children’s book Dog And Butterfly — which was inspired by their 1978 album of the same name. In October, Nancy also released a set of acoustic children’s lullabies called Baby Guitars.

Ann Wilson says that she’s proud that Heart still tries to grow both in the studio as well as on stage: “Well, you know, we’re not bound by the Heart tradition. Heart is now a brand name that we worked really hard on, and now we’re not selling that brand of soap. It’s funny how you can get into a prison of your own making with a big-name band like that, and all of a sudden, you look around yourself and you go, ‘Jesus, I don’t want to do this. That’s not really where we’re at.’”

Nancy Wilson says that Heart has been caught in a strange place throughout the years, with management and record labels pushing the band to not develop as artists: “They tell you not to reinvent yourself. They tell you that your fans have an identity that they know, that is familiar to them, that they don’t want to change. It’s interesting. But in our case, I mean, we’ve been able to change a lot, but we’ve had to fight to be able to change a lot (laugh).” )

Thanx to Ronnie from the Heartmonger Blog

Ann in HD?

An Evening with Heart

Heart is coming to EMP’s Sky Church for a live concert and DVD filming!

Heart will be playing a bevy of their classic hits as well as
new material from their forthcoming album.

March 5, 2010
8:00 pm
EMP|SFM Sky Church

Tickets: $65 for EMP|SFM members, Heartmonger fanclub pre-sale only February 3 – February 6
$75 for non-members and tickets purchased after February 6, 2010

Tickets go on sale February 3 for Heart Mongers/members and February 7 for the general public.

To purchase tickets at the EMP|SFM member price, first visit heart-music.com and click on members only news (in red) to obtain the Heart fanclub members only password ). Then visit brownpapertickets.com
February 3-6, 2010 and type in the code for your member pre-sale discount.

Tickets go on sale February 7 to the general public. The member pre-sale price will no longer be available.

Cash Bar. 21 and over. General Admission

Sky Church is located at The Experience Music Project, in Seattle, Washington.
EMP|SFM is located at:
325 5th Avenue North
Seattle, WA 98109
(on the Seattle Center Campus)

for more information on EMP – visit www.empsfm.org/index.aps

Nancy Wilson

Click here for the 2009 interview :) Thanx to Heartboy!